SAN FRANCISCO—In a flight from Minneapolis’ Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) to San Francisco’s San Francisco International Airport (SFO), thirty-four-year-old Rustom Bhagwagar, copilot at Delta Air Lines was apprehended from the cockpit of the airplane when it was grounded at SFO at 9:35 p.m. in the evening on Saturday, July 26, 2025.

According to a passenger’s account on the flight, there were about ten federal agents who worked in the Department of Homeland Security, storming the cockpit of the Boeing 757 with Flight Number 2809 in order to capture the copilot by handcuffing him on child sexual abuse materials charges. He was booked on felony counts of performing sex acts with a child under age eleven, suspicion of sexual penetration or oral copulation with a child aged ten or yo

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